The answer is to increase densities by building up, not ever expanding urban sprawl outwards, which would never work in the end because of the necessary energy usage,” he argues. “There’s no clear understanding of the ideal way of achieving densification, but, given the scale of population movement we’re seeing, [so far] skyscrapers do seem the best answer.
This push towards more towers is especially a pressure, aesthetically at least, for cities of historic architecture,says Barbara Weiss, an architect and founder of Skyline, a campaign to curtail London’s proposed tall building boom.
Yet it’s not limited to them. The fact is that there are good and bad ways of doing towers, and there are a lot of bad ones going up. This tower boom is really a worldwide crisis. You’re either potentially losing something precious or, at best, missing a real opportunity for positive city planning.